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On 25/08/10 05:53, Thomas Olsen wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Ric Moore <span
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<div class="im">On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 15:11 +0200, Thomas Olsen
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> Actually I have no problems booting up with the nouveau driver now<br>
> except that it's so damn slow.<br>
> After reading my mail again I can see that I wasn't being quite
clear.<br>
> I'd like to see if the binary driver is faster but as it freezes
the<br>
> kernel I wanted to ask if this was a known bug and if there's a
way to<br>
> get around it.<br>
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I have several nvidia video cards on machines that are older than yours.<br>
Nary a hiccup in the barrel. It did take several tries with the<br>
"hardware drivers" app to finally get it to work though. Nouveau is a<br>
ways off to become a replacement for the stock nvidia driver. I don't<br>
have the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package installed. I think I ran<br>
into a conflict with it early in my fresh install of Lucid. Ric<br>
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<div>Well maybe I should try to purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and
before I install the binary because kern.log looked like parts of
nouveau was being loaded. Hmm. I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks.<br>
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BTW: In xorg.conf do you user Driver "nvidia" or "nv"?<br>
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In xorg.conf to use the proprietary nvidia driver you need Driver
"nvidia", the "nv" driver is non-accelerated precursor to "nouveau".
The slowness you are experiencing is due to the nouveau driver not
using hardware acceleration which is also required for some
games/software. I am using the proprietary driver without any problems
but I had to start with an xorg.conf from another distribution as by
default Ubuntu does not use xorg.conf and installing the proprietary
driver in my case did not create one. I also found that using
nvidia-xconfig to create an xorg.conf did not work either.<br>
I have attached the xorg.conf I am using under ubuntu for reference. <br>
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regards,<br>
Steve<br>
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Best regards<br>
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Thomas Olsen<br>
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